INFLUENCE ON WRITING OF UNUSUAL CONDITION OF PERSON CAUSED BY MENTAL DISORDERS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of writing disorders and the diagnosis of the unusual state of the writer caused by mental disorders. The authors found that modern forensic sources pay little attention to this aspect of the problem being highlighted. However, the scientific approach to its solution largely depends on a comprehensive analysis of mental disorders, which should be established by the methodology of forensic handwriting. It was determined that writing is a complex mental activity of a person, which includes both cognitive, speech, motor, and emotional processes. Differentiating the states of the executor of the manuscript by handwriting is a difficult task, especially in connection with some similarity of the reflection in the manuscripts directly of the reasons that change the skill of writing, for example, such as alcohol intoxication, a state of great excitement, stress, etc. It was stated that the objects of handwriting expertise are handwritten texts, short notes, signatures, and even digital markings. Depending on the specific circumstances of the case under consideration by the forensic handwriting examination, the fact of the writing of the text by a specific person can be established or refuted, the methods of execution of certain manuscripts, the state of a particular person at the time of execution of the manuscript are established. The range of tasks of forensic expertise regarding the writing of persons who are in a psychopathological state are similar, but largely different, to the medical diagnostic tasks of establishing mental disorders of a person listed in the international classification of diseases. It is indicated that it is appropriate to refer to the information of psychiatry in order to understand the general characteristics of the psychopathological state of a person, to form a clear idea about its varieties and their characteristic signs - symptoms and syndromes. The article examines the development and current state of research on writing disorders in mental disorders, reveals the psychophysiological foundations of the writing mechanism and its psychological features. Examples of expert research practice and experimental-psychological research of writing disorders in patients with various mental disorders are also given.

Keywords

• handwriting
• writing
• signs of handwriting
• psychopathological condition
• mental disorders
• forensic handwriting expertise
• expert
• handwriting diagnosis
• forensic research